Armand Duplantis
Armand "Mondo" Duplantis is a Swedish American pole vaulter who has broken the world record fifteen times, most recently at 6.31 m in Uppsala in March 2026. Born in Louisiana to a Swedish mother and an American pole vaulter father, he competes for Sweden, has won two Olympic golds and three outdoor world titles, and has not lost a competition since August 2023. He opened the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest on September 11, 2026 with a win at 6.20 m.
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Where does Armand Duplantis live?
Monaco. He moved there in 2026 and sold the Stockholm apartment he had owned for less than a year, saying the Principality offered the best conditions for training and travel. Before that he had split his time between Sweden and the United States, spending long stretches in Lafayette, Louisiana, at the family house where his father built a pole vault pit in the back garden. Sources: Sweden Herald, Sportstar.
What is Armand Duplantis's nationality?
He holds both Swedish and American citizenship, and competes internationally for Sweden. He was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, to an American father, Greg Duplantis, and a Swedish mother, Helena Hedlund. He chose to represent Sweden as a teenager, which is why he wins medals in Swedish yellow and blue despite a Louisiana accent. Source: Wikipedia.
How old is Armand Duplantis?
26. He was born on November 10, 1999, in Lafayette, Louisiana. He was 20 when he won Olympic gold in Tokyo, 24 in Paris, and he set his first world record at 20 years old in February 2020. Source: Wikipedia.
How tall is Armand Duplantis?
1.81 m, or about 5 ft 11 in. That is unremarkable for an elite athlete and slightly short for a pole vaulter, a discipline that tends to favour long levers. His advantage is speed on the runway and technique on the plant rather than reach. Source: Wikipedia.
What is Armand Duplantis's world record?
6.31 m, set on March 12, 2026 at the Mondo Classic in Uppsala, Sweden. It was the fifteenth world record of his career. The previous mark, 6.30 m, he had set himself at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo in September 2025. He has raised the record in one-centimetre steps since first breaking it at 6.17 m in February 2020. Sources: Red Bull, ESPN, Wikipedia.
How many world records has Duplantis broken?
Fifteen, as of March 2026. He broke the indoor world record for the first time in Torun in February 2020 at 6.17 m, added a centimetre a week later, and has kept going in the same increments ever since. Vaulters are paid a bonus by meeting organisers for each record, which is one practical reason the progression is slow and deliberate rather than a single enormous jump. Sources: Wikipedia, Red Bull.
How many Olympic gold medals does Duplantis have?
Two. He won the pole vault at Tokyo 2020, held in 2021, and defended the title at Paris 2024, where he cleared a world record 6.25 m on his final attempt in front of a full Stade de France. Source: Wikipedia.
Is Armand Duplantis a world champion?
Yes, several times over. Outdoors he won the world title in Eugene 2022, Budapest 2023 and Tokyo 2025. Indoors he has won four consecutive World Indoor Championships: Belgrade 2022, Glasgow 2024, Nanjing 2025 and Torun 2026. He also won the European title in 2026. Source: Wikipedia.
When did Duplantis last lose a competition?
August 2023. By the time he set the 6.31 m record in March 2026 the streak had reached 38 consecutive victories, across indoor and outdoor seasons, Diamond League meetings and championships. In a sport decided by centimetres and by whether a bar rattles or stays, that is the more astonishing statistic of the two. Sources: Wikipedia, Red Bull.
Who is Armand Duplantis's wife?
Desiré Inglander, a Swedish model. The couple met in 2020 and married on June 12, 2026 at the Château de Castellaras in the hills above Cannes, after a welcome party at the Villa Eilenroc in Antibes. Sources: Vogue Scandinavia, The Advocate.
Who coaches Armand Duplantis?
His parents. Greg Duplantis, his father, was an American pole vaulter with a personal best of 5.80 m, and Helena Duplantis, his mother, is a Swedish former heptathlete and volleyball player. They coached him from the garden pit in Lafayette through to the Olympic titles, which is close to unheard of at this level. He competes domestically for the Swedish club Upsala IF. Source: Wikipedia.
Why is he called Mondo?
It is a childhood nickname. His parents' Italian friend called him mondo, Italian for world, when he was small, and it stuck. He has used it his whole career, and it has aged unusually well for a nickname given to a toddler who went on to hold the world record. Sources: Vogue Scandinavia, NBC Olympics.
Did Duplantis win at the Ultimate Championship in Budapest?
Yes. He won the pole vault at the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship on September 11, 2026, clearing 6.20 m to close the opening night, and collected the 150,000 dollar first prize. Sources: NBC Sports, World Athletics.
How much does Armand Duplantis earn?
There is no published figure, and any specific number circulating online is an estimate. What is documented: he is paid appearance fees at Diamond League meetings, receives world record bonuses from meeting organisers, won a 150,000 dollar first prize at the 2026 Ultimate Championship, and has long-term sponsorship deals including Puma and Red Bull. Swedish tax records are public, but they lag and do not separate sponsorship from prize money. Sources: World Athletics, Red Bull.
Mondo Duplantis: the man who raises the bar one centimetre at a time
Armand Duplantis has held the pole vault world record since February 2020, and has spent the six years since then breaking it again. Fifteen times, in single-centimetre steps, from 6.17 m to 6.31 m, the mark he set at the Mondo Classic in Uppsala on March 12, 2026. No other athlete in any event has managed a progression quite like it, and the method is not an accident: meeting organisers pay a bonus for each record, so there is no reason to jump 6.40 m when 6.32 m pays the same and leaves something for next year.
He was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, on November 10, 1999, and the origin story is genuinely as odd as it sounds. His father, Greg Duplantis, was an American pole vaulter who cleared 5.80 m; his mother, Helena, a Swedish heptathlete and volleyball player. They built a pole vault pit in the back garden. He was jumping on it at three, breaking age-group world bests through his childhood, and being coached by both parents the entire time. He still is. At a level where athletes cycle through specialist coaching teams, Duplantis is trained by his mum and dad.
The dual nationality gave him a choice, and he took Sweden. He competes for Upsala IF domestically and has spent his career winning for a country whose language he speaks with an American accent. It has worked out: two Olympic golds in Tokyo and Paris, three outdoor world titles in Eugene, Budapest and Tokyo, four straight world indoor titles up to Torun in 2026, five Diamond League crowns, and the European title in 2026.
The statistic that says the most is not the record. It is that he has not lost a competition since August 2023, a run that had reached 38 straight wins by early 2026. Pole vault is a discipline of narrow margins and bad days: a headwind, a mistimed plant, a bar that rattles off after you have cleared it. Going three years without one of those is a different kind of achievement from jumping high once.
His life outside the runway moved in 2026. He married the Swedish model Desiré Inglander on June 12 at the Château de Castellaras above Cannes, and the couple relocated to Monaco, selling the Stockholm apartment he had bought barely a year earlier. On September 11, 2026, he opened the first World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest by winning at 6.20 m, which at this point counts as a routine evening, and took home 150,000 dollars for it.
Sources: Wikipedia, Red Bull, ESPN, NBC Sports, NBC Olympics, Vogue Scandinavia, Sweden Herald, The Advocate, World Athletics.
